Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1915 — Dead Man Causes Wreck. [ARTICLE]

Dead Man Causes Wreck.

Samuel Shock, an Erie brakeman of Huntington, was kileld last Friday afternoon in Spencerville, Ohio, in one of the strangest accidents in the history of the railroad. Another express struck Shock as he was trying to reach the caboose of his own train, and hurled his body against a switch stand. The switch was thrown open and five of the freight cars passing on the eastbound track were derailed. One of the cars turned over, crushing a brakeman beneath it. All traffic stopped for several 'hours.